Furniture, Fixtures and Fittings Catalog Items

As with doors and windows catalogue items the furniture, fittings and fixtures part of the Room Design application will accept SFIT and TMPL elements as valid geometrical representations of the relevant modelled item.

In order to work correctly with the furniture, fixings and fixtures part of the Room Design application, the component orientation needs to be correctly aligned with any wall faces that it is to be placed on and in the case of an element such as a table this needs to be relative to the floor level that it will sit at.

The convention for these items is that the facing direction of any wall component is defined as being in the positive Z direction and subsequently the default rotational orientation of the component is such that its X direction maps along the wall.

The origin for any wall component represents the position on the wall face that the fitting will placed at when the fitting is created.

Room element fittings behave in much the same way as wall fittings except that the Z direction of the component maps onto the Z direction of the room element at which the component is placed, therefore to have a furniture item that sits at floor level it must be defined such that all geometry begins at the origin and is subsequently defined outwards in the positive Z direction.

The same configuration is also applied to templates where the template primitives are arranged to provide the same basic orientation.